In 1978, Hicks decorated Hamilton’s family castle in Ireland. Such ties allowed her permission from the Hicks family to use the decorator’s iconic ‘clinch’ print. Hamilton’s designer partner – Charles Sebline – “redrew the print by hand” and printed it on powdered tangerine and also combat green crepe de chine.

“The ‘clinch’ is key to their collection which Sebline - a master of cut and demon with detail – stresses is “very urbane romantic” with shades of 1890s Russian peasants and style icon Loulou de la Falaise.